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How many of you use a 3rd-party app to browse Reddit?

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[–] Dekthro@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] raspberrybush@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Apollo forever till the blackout. Replaced the apollo spot with Mlem to keep my muscle memory from screwing over my desire to not support the reddit changes.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I used to use rif. Now, if a search brings me to reddit, I use my web browser, but I haven't directly gone to reddit since the subreddits went dark.

Used to use Apollo, but traded my iphone to get back to Android a week ago. Perfect timing to be honest, haven't been on Reddit since.

[–] wholemilk@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

RIF for a few years and Apollo for a few months, since both are going down I don't really have any incentive to stay on Reddit

[–] kkaosninja@mas.to 3 points 1 year ago

@lostwonder Used to have Infinity for Reddit on my Android.

Uninstalled it now.

[–] Varyag@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup, that's why I ended up here. Used RIF on my phone, and can only stand Reddit on browser through RES on old.reddit. Gonna lose the RIF at the end of the month, and old.reddit's undeniably approaching death will make me stop going back there too.

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[–] xeedufk@terefere.eu 3 points 1 year ago

Still have Apollo installed to use it until the last day. Been using less and less thou in recent 1-2 weeks.

[–] wreck@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Apollo for iOS, RiF for Android I've pretty much been off Reddit since the blackout

[–] JohnnyMentero@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I use 3: RedReader, Stealth & Relay

[–] Limeade@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used RiF. Tried a few other apps over the years, but nothing beat the clean, uncluttered UI.

[–] ranandtoldthat@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Yes! Rif is amazingly accessible from a neurodiversity standpoint.

[–] BReel@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Apollo since day one. When I searched for an app originally, I thought it WAS the official app lol. Now that they're gone, I'm gone.

[–] rs5th@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I was using Apollo before... well... you know, everything.

[–] Minty@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sync, but I already got rid of it and my Reddit stuff.

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[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

That poll isn't going to get good results because a lot of 3PA users have already left reddit

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[–] GeminiFrenchFry@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago
[–] irongamer@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago
[–] Mane25@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

If "currently" means before the debacle (because I don't use Reddit currently): no, I'm primarily a desktop user, I used old Reddit and RES and I don't really have much personal attachment to 3rd party apps (that doesn't mean I won't stand with those who do).

I think that the API issue is more of a symptom of something much more deeply wrong with Reddit, if it wasn't the API it would have been some other breaking point.

[–] Scrabbone@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

I use the Apollo app and wait until the ship sinks…

[–] LegacyFlex@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I've exclusively used Relay for years until earlier this week. I've popped in a few times to see how things were going. According to my screen time usage app I've used Relay for under 10 minutes this week. Prior to that I was spending anywhere hour plus daily.

[–] Gh05t@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I was on digg but was slow to get on Reddit. Wasn’t until Apollo that it became regular part of my daily routine. Without the app I wouldn’t have been as engaged.

[–] gk99@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to use Boost, I stopped when they banned the community showing how to switch to kbin.

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[–] obosob@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

I recently bought RIF golden platinum just to give back to the dev, knowing that very soon the app will stop working. I'm hoping the dev could reuse his code and swap out the backend to make a lemmy client of the same caliber. It really is a good app.

[–] kilmister@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I'm looking for a gradual transition from Reddit to Lemmy. To make things easier, I started to use Redreader. Man, I wish I'd done this switch earlier.

Redreader's dev has expressed interest on Lemmy compatibility, so when (if) this happens, I know which app I'll be using.

[–] NRVulture@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apollo. So no more reddit for me when the app shuts down officially.

I wish Christian would made an Apollo-like app for the Fediverse.

[–] JasSmith@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Right there with you. The thing is, I've been trying to kick the habit for years now. Huffman is doing me and millions of others a favour here. I'll probably still log in online occasionally, but that's a small minority of the time I spend on the site.

[–] Sim@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 year ago

RIF was Reddit for me.

[–] BiggestBulb@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I used Joey for about a year but since the blackout it's been uninstalled

[–] Rentlar@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Red Reader is my main app, but I use it a lot less than before because I'm slowly moving to Lemmy. Still on there for now to shitpost where it's been newly allowed.

[–] MrMonkey@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I just uninstalled BaconReader. Long time user. Deleted the accounts that weren't banned for wrongthink.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

RIF right until I stopped using reddit.

[–] parared@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I have Apollo Ultra, because I really appreciated the work that went into making the app so pleasant. I also was a reddit subscriber for over a decade ( since 2011 ). Already cancelled the subscription, and when Apollo goes dark I think my use of reddit will plummet. Pretty much just browser access with adblock on.

[–] SeaJay@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I used to, Joey. It was a little rough around the edges but it was cheap and had no ads. I stopped using in January because I wanted to spend less time on Reddit in general - the site on mobile Firefox sure helped to keep me away :^)

Now I'm gone for good tho - thanks spez for helping me quit!

[–] renard_roux@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

10 years on Relay. I've stopped going now.

[–] madr@madr.it 3 points 1 year ago

@lostwonder Yup, I use Infinity, and I'll keep it installed until it no longer works, but I'm just trying not to use Reddit at all now.

[–] Cannacheques@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

Have used various third party apps in the past, won't name, they've never been too bad.

Usually neater and pay homage to the original style of Reddit as a long form text based forum,. From what I've seen, the official Reddit app and front page on desktop has evolved into a Facebook style newsfeed of images and short videos.

Not my jam

[–] fiberandcolor@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Same. I haven't opened the app (or the website itself) since the start of the blackout. As the news has developed, there's less and less reason to.

[–] borntohula85@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm still using Apollo and am trying to get used to Feddit but it's hard, to be honest. On Reddit I'd know I'd get shittons of downvotes for saying this ;-)

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[–] manesa@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

I'm still using Infinity For Reddit until the app doesn't work anymore.

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